Manuel Velázquez

Faced with this exhibition I imagine my city, not any city or a city in the abstract, but mine, where I live. I attempt to internalize it, feel it, with the stories shared as a community. Each street or park, every corner I have traveled, lived or felt carries an intellectual and emotional universe, which can be decomposed into thousands of threads of meaning. The city, in the work of Gloria Carrasco, is memory and identity built over time. The city is a small ceramic house. It is therefore everyone's house, our house.

In Fragile Cities, Carrasco attempts to seize the city, that is, make it hers, and merge it with her work, so that we cannot distinguished what city we are talking about, but that is represents all. Her sculpture is a space for the "representation" of the cities, which are currently growing at a hasty pace, disproportionately, generating and exploitation in the use of land and natural spaces. Her cities are ordered, in contrast to real cities, in disarray, in a disproportionate urbanization; an inharmonic and incoherent habitat, causing chaos and a degenerative tendency of life, stimulated not only by the visual saturation but also by violence.

As Hölderlin would say, a city must be a place where humans dwell poetically. Where past and present coexist with respect for historical memory and identity, which is not in conflict with innovation: that is the idea of the city that this artist, Carrasco, offers. Carrasco presents us with ceramic objects, sculptures, installations and environmental works derived from her talent and professionalism, which are carriers of a process of profound significance for contemporary ceramic sculpture.